Judgment for Social Injustice

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The voice of ADONAI! He calls to the city - and it is wisdom to fear your name - "Listen to the rod and to him who commissioned it.

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Are there still ill-gotten gains in the house of the wicked? still the detestable short eifah-measure?

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Should I declare innocent wicked scales and a bag of fraudulent weights?

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The rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants tell lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

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"Therefore, I am starting to strike you down, to destroy you because of your sins.

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You will eat but not be satisfied, with hunger gnawing inside you. You will conceive but not give birth; if you do give birth, I will give him to the sword.

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You will sow but will not reap, you will press olives but not rub yourself with oil, likewise you will press grapes but not drink the wine.

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For you keep the regulations of 'Omri and all the practices of the house of Ach'av, modeling yourselves on their advice. Therefore I will make you an object of horror, the inhabitants of this city a cause for contempt; you will suffer the insults aimed at my people."

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